Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

Observations with JWST show unexpectedly large black holes in early galaxies, reshaping ideas about cosmic evolution.

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

Astronomers have taken a crucial step in showing that the most massive black holes in the universe can create their own meals ...